Don't the daily mail (like several other media outlets) use Taboola?
They don't exactly have the best of records when it comes to being exploited.
smartadserver.com was the vector for the DM "angling", can't see anything related to Taboola in the malwarebytes write-up.
I suspect you're perhaps thinking of all the "thisis..." sites which were part of Northcliffe Media and are now part of the (rapidly failing) Local World. They use Taboola (and others) & would sell their own mothers if it brought in a quid or two. A classic example is that they get paid by crapita to run regular stories about how many people have been done for not paying their TV tax. Similarly certain councils pay to get stories about council tax fines placed prominently. Use of an adblocker is more or less compulsory on those sites if you actually want to be able to read/find the article
